I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.